Beaver [he/him]

I’m hoping that there’s eventually a massive glut of secondhand datacenter equipment for running local models.

I recall him mentioning it in March, and it wondering if it was just a case that the rate of installation of new compute was rising fast, and so these companies needed a big buffer of GPUs to make sure they had something to install. And so I expected that what we would see is that maybe these buffers of GPUs in warehouses would grow, but the installation rate would grow faster. But now that the numbers are in, it seems like the gap is widening in the opposite direction - warehousing is accelerating faster than the acceleration of installation of GPUs. Every month brings new absurdities.

I think the re-election of the Trump admin after an interregnum of “reasonable liberal governance” dealt a terminal blow to the idea that American electoralism fundamentally moderates the USA’s behavior. And because Trump is throwing shit everywhere, other countries can’t help but gain some first-hand experience of the downsides of that situation, and will act accordingly.

Also, the USA’s internal cultural landscape is fracturing, and there is no-longer an implicit coordinate between the USA’s cultural exports, and the goals of the USA’s political leadership. And so, even if the USA remains a cultural export juggernaut (I think it will), that aspect of it’s soft power will no longer be such a direct tool for it’s leadership. And so I expect that the USA will become a lot more hard-edged in the way it interacts with the rest of the world, simply because the cultural influences will not subtly steer other country’s decision making towards outcomes that the USA favors.

Did it work out last time? No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but… but it might work this time.

I own a lot of stock in surveilance and MIC companies and want to make sure that’s a future growth sector.

I’m sure this was random unjustified violence, and not the result of BofA doing life-ruining levels of predatory usury to the assailant.

It’s pretty funny seeing mainstream media posting this picture with the obvious expectation that people would dunk on them… and instead getting flooded by comments celebrating them.

Does this basically mirror it’s content? This definitely seems more useable than marxists.org

Imagine if AI was suddenly banned

I wonder if this is some “creative accounting” to account for any F-35s that might have gotten destroyed in Iranian missile strikes.

I’ve come to conclude that it’s impossible to have constructive discussions about Stalin with western liberals (and most leftists, too). There’s just way too much cultural programming to break through, and you just put yourself at risk of being written off as a crazy person. You’re better off talking about the Soviet Union’s actual record of human development from the 20’s through 50’s, and just sidestep the subject of who was nominally in charge during that period.

It is the DUTY of every GOD FEARING FULL BLOODED AMERICAN MAN to get EXPLODED BY AN FPV DRONE in the foothills of the Zagros mountains.

Have they tried not being complete shit?

“Let’s give the racist chatbot the power of life over death” (immediately murders a bunch of schoolchildren)

There’s a lot of sorting that happens to recruits who join the US military. Most army and marine personnel are in supporting roles, and those are generally filled by the higher educated recruits who did have other potential opportunities in life… and then you can imagine who gets to be the cannon fodder on the frontlines, and then who is actually doing the atrocities. It’s perverse.

The air force is where that dynamic is flipped, and the actual trigger-pullers are highly educated, accomplished people who could have done anything else with their life but cause death and misery. They are some of the most contemptible scum in the imperial core.

The Ussuri river conflict, right after the sino-soviet split. But I think it’s main characteristic is that it did not escalate into a major war, despite the huge depopyment of forces.

I didn’t make a conscious effort to stop. They got really shitty on their own, and I found more grass-touching activities. I still have accounts on all of the big social media platforms, since people will message me or send me links on them from time to time. But will go months at a time not even thinking about them.

I do spend a lot of time on lemmy and mastodon, as well as groups on the various messaging services (discord, matrix, signal, telegram, WhatsApp, and good 'ol SMS and email). Those are technically the same kind of “social media”. But I think everyone understands now that there’s a categorical difference between real communities of people using a technology to talk to each other, and the skinner boxes.

They love playing with their toys.